Improvement in whiffle-trees



E. A. SMEADQ Patented Jan. 5, 1869.

Im-ank?" Wbwwea VE. A. sMEAD, oFTIoGA, PEN'N-SYLVANIA'. Lem/rs Pam No. 85,541, dated .mmm 5,1869.

IMPROYENIENT IN WHIIE'PIE-TREES.

The Schedule referred to in these, Letters Patent and making part .ofthe sama.

To all whom 'it 'may concern Be it known that LE. A. SMEAD, of Tioga, in the county of Tioga, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVhiftle-Trees;l and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof` reference being had to-the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this speeification, in which- Figure l represents a lngitudinal section.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the same.

Figure -3 is a side elevaton of the bar which fits in the end of the .wlifiie-tree, with spring removed.

The letter A represents a section of a whifle-tree.

B designates a metal band or end of the section A. i

Th'e outer end .of band B is provided with a hook, C, and is confined to the whiffle-tree by means of one or more screws.

The outer end of band B is furnished with a metal plate, e, which contains a slot in it, to receive the bar d, which is formed of sniicient width at its outer end to fill the slot in plate e. (See fig. 3.)

The bar d will have' two shoulders at the points s s, the object of which is to prevent the bar d from coming out of place when once in position.

In order to attach myimprovement to the whifle- Teri'ule, fitted on the ficiently large to' receive the bar B and the spring f, which, at its inner end, will rest against the shoulder -t. (See fig. l.)

In operating my invention, all that is required is to push back the bar (Z suflciently far into its chamber to allow the ring oufthe trace to pass inside of hook O; then, by withdrawing your thumb from said bar, the spring s will force it out, so that its upper edge .will be immediately under hook O, and thus render it tree, a hole is made in the end of saidflWhiffle-tree, suf'-- impossible for the trace-ring to escape -from its posi- I am aware of the existence of S. Botterillis patent,

What I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Let: 

